World Open IV

The PartyPoker.com World Open IV took place in London between 25th April – 2nd May 2008 and featured a top class field led by ‘Ambassador of Poker’ Mike Sexton.

Other familiar faces to look out for this year include recent PartyPoker.com European Open IV winner Nick Slade, Theo Jorgensen, Ian Frazer, Ross Boatman, Marty Smyth, Roberto Romanello, Jon Kalmar, Jon Magill, Thomas Bihl, Roy Brindley, Surinder Sunar, John Tabatabai, Pippa Flanders and Liam Flood.

The 72 runner $8,000 buy-in event featured a first prize of $250,000 from a total prize pool of $576,000. The 2007 winnner was 45-year-old former Sidcup betting shop owner Anthony Hardy triumphed over a final table that also featured Ian Cox, Ram Vaswani, David Rudling, Ian Frazer and eventual runner-up Ian Woodley.